Never say that I have taken it, only that I have given it back.
EPICURUSI never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.
More Epicurus Quotes
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Vain is the word of that philosopher which does not heal any suffering of man.
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Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.
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Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.
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Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
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The time when you should most of all withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.
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If you shape your life according to nature, you will never be poor; if according to people’s opinions, you will never be rich.
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Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not.
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Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
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He who is not satisfied with a little is satisfied with nothing.
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Contented poverty is an honorable estate.
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It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.
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Don’t fear the gods, Don’t worry about death; What is good is easy to get, and What is terrible is easy to endure.
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Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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